Most of my research on my personal family tree has been in England or Scotland. I'm quite familiar with digging for information in the records that are kept there and I've become used to tracking things down. My latest endeavour involves American/Canadian research and I'm finding the amount of Ancestry hints and the records that come up a bit overwhelming. I can see the temptation to accept hints and records because the only options are to accept the record into your own Ancestry family tree or to ignore the hint. There is no option to place it in abeyance to think about it for a while. It would be easy to fill in your tree quickly that way but would it be right?
I think I'll be better off searching for records myself using the hints to steer me in the right direction. Finding out what happened to the children of my 2 x great grandfather, Samuel Tripp, and his wives is helped by the fact that so many of them were sons so kept their last name. So far the deepest mysteries are about the daughters: my Charlotte, the daughter of his first wife, Sarah Ann, whose mother has not been determined and Mary Elizabeth, the daughter of his second wife. It will be interesting to see how far I get with my search for all of Samuel Tripp's descendants.
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